Alex Boone has a strange request for the San Francisco Zoo

What San Francisco 49ers’ guard Alex Boone wants more than anything is a Super Bowl ring, which guarantees the holder a measure of immortality. Second on Boone’s list? Have the new rhinoceros at the San Francisco Zoo named after him, and quite possibly more immortality.
Boone and his family toured the zoo last month and when the zoo’s marketing department found out that a 49er was on the premises, they went and scooped up Boone’s family for a private tour. That’s when Boone became nose-to-Rhino horn with a three-year-old black rhino recently shipped up from the San Diego Safari Park.
“I didn’t even want to touch it; I was scared,” Boone said. “But if they name it after me, I will give it a big hug.”

This monkey was named after San Francisco Giants closer Sergio Romo

The zoo has named animals after San Francisco Giants’ players. In November, an infant Francois Lunger monkey, which is appropriately orange in color, was named after closer Sergio Romo. A hippo roaming around the zoo grounds with the name Brian Wilson.
However, naming big animals like a rhino typically goes into a bidding process.
“We are a non-profit,” Communications Director Abigail Tuller noted. And like most non-profits, they are always looking for new revenue
That’s not stopping Boone who has even elicited the help of Romo, who he saw in the 49ers’ locker room after a recent win.
“It would be nice to have a Boone rhino, with a big 75 on the side. Look at him,” Romo said, as he watched Boone head to his locker. “He’s big like one, are you sure he isn’t one?”
Boone recently went back to the zoo, where he was filmed by ComcastBayArea.com feeding a giraffe. Here’s a look.